Thursday, September 8, 2016

MY BUCKET LIST IS EMPTY

I recently
run across references to bucket list and that got me thinking. A bucket list contains something that you
always wanted to do but were never able.

I can
honestly say that I have done everything that I ever wanted to do.

As a child my
dreamed were of hunting and fishing and camping in remote wilderness areas; I
ordered the U.S. Navy Survival Manuel and practically memorized it; I dreamed
of canoe trips through wild rivers; I fantasized about living off the grid with
a beautiful, sexy woman; I wanted to scuba dive and sky dive; I dreamed of living
in the Alaska wilderness; and of cars and motorcycles.

As an adult:

·I joined the Navy, and along with
other assignments I spent eight years as a Navy survival instructor

·I was a licensed Maine State Guide

·I ran the Allagash river in Maine – a
ten-day canoe trip.

·And transited the Okefenokee swamps
in a canoe – a ten-day trip

·I was a licensed scuba diver and
assistant instructor, and operated my own diving company in Florida.

·My wife and I lived in an old, remote
farmhouse with no water, electricity or sewerage while we attended college and made love.

·We spent eleven years in the Indian
and Eskimo villages of Alaska as teachers.

·I have owned numerous motorcycles and
cars

·I made my first solo parachute jump
when I turned seventy.

·I live with a sensuous, sexy,
intelligent woman

·And so much more…

We still
have little trips and we enjoy the same simple pleasures; but nothing that’s
deserving of a bucket list is left for me to do.

Lot of places in the world I have not seen and a great many books still to read. Not sure whether I have or will yet make a difference to the beef industry in Ukraine but that is the only thing I would really like.

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